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The actor Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe and “Jean-Luc Picard is aware of him” and other little-known Star Trek facts. [ironicsans.ghost.io]

Though it's just an emoji moon At the end of a little tweet Guess it seems that you'll be suin' 'Cause you believed in me ediscoverytoday.com/2023/10/13/m...

I’m gonna make this a sign so I can tap it.

Baba brews a mushroom stew If travelers come poking 'round, well she knows what to do I'm picking berries by the stream When Baba's mortar whizzes by A stag's begun to cry, and her potion needs the tears Our house, it goes walking down the street Our house, on a pair of chicken feet

It sounds better in the original Japanese.

Apple has a piracy problem. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Never would've guessed that "being able to run a good meeting" was part of the criteria for picking a pope, but I guess at the end of the day, it's still just a job! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/w...

From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.

In the 1950s, polling on interracial marriage was at 4% approval in the United States. Loving v. Virginia is 1967. We hit an above 50% approval rating for the first time in the 1990s. In 2021, 94% of Americans approved of interracial marriage.

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

Smearing lamb’s blood above my door so JD Vance doesn’t visit

Seattle City Council Begins Ethics Code Meeting with Brand Acknowledgement: tinyurl.com/3j392wxx

Exactly this, and also I don't think it's true, this patronizing assumption voters only care about "the economy" and appeals to the Constitution mean nothing. As is often the case, they have a picture in DC of voters that's at best overly simplistic and often outright incorrect and insulting.

Allen Ginsberg created the character of Howl in a classic book-length poem. It took 30 years for Diana Wynne Jones to write an authorized sequel about his moving castle.

When Halo is being particularly barky, I let her outside. This bothers me less, but my neighbors more. This is what economists call a negative externality.

Sweet dreams are made of bees. Who am I? 10,000 bees. Wow, that's sure a lot of bees. All of us are looking for honey.

They fucked up the kerning on Pope Francis’s tomb. FR A NCISC VS. “There is no historical or aesthetic reason why the kerning is so poor.” [fastcompany.com]

Public opinion on immigration is 1) malleable, and 2) easily sours on visible cruelty, and if anyone told you otherwise over the last 5 years, they're offering you cursed ideology masked as wise pragmatism

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

The most important thing for you to know as a software engineer is that if you destroy the computer with a hammer it cannot hurt you anymore

For sale: One pair of baby shoes, never worn. We were gifted *so* many shoes by the large, loving community surrounding us and our child, we simply never had a chance to take these adorable booties out of the box. And our kiddo's been growing like a weed - they're already in the next size up!

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

This poster goes so hard I’m obsessed

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

For context, Lee County is the Southern most county in Iowa, basically the part that looks like a goatee on Iowa's East Coast. It's over an hour's drive from Iowa City. Trump carried 62% of the vote. Grassley is notorious for promoting events in a way that Dems don't find out.

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption

@blueprincegame.bsky.social is amazing. It's a roguelite first person point and click escape room puzzler. Your uncle left you a mansion; you seek its hidden room. When you open a door you draft 3 rooms from the deck and pick one to place. And they've already announced a sequel: (1/2)

Someone grab the A1! The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.

Oh man, my baby's going to be a shoe-in to be the navigator for the mission to Titan run by an elite space program![1] Unless he decides to be the CEO of Torment Nexus, Inc[2] instead.

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

Wombat Banana is me experimenting with "video production". I wanted to do a bit of a subtle zoom in on the coffee cup but couldn't figure that bit out.

That sound you hear is every Staff+ engineer and SRE screaming in unison